couldn't agree more about the contempt. he sounded like a headmaster who wanted the teenagers to get their haircut, get books out and read a bit of Kipling then put an irving Berlin record on!
I left school the year after this film was made. And started work in Liverpool City Centre. The office buildings were mostly of Edwardian design and survived the second world war impact on the city. Shops were plentiful with all styles catered for. We had dress well at Peter Pell for the suits. Flemings for denim jeans, that had not caught on with younger generation Streets were safer, and cleaner. Pubs were well run and a place to meet up. Anyone who recalls the city centre from the 60s might be hard pressed to say the current centre has the same appeal to all ages, like it did in the 1960s and 70s
Flemings Jeans had a shop in Walton, nearly everyone in our School wore them and the wider the better, with either Air weir Boots, or Como Shoes. Happy Days.
@@stephensmith4480 They had the tag on the back with the address on - 74 Walton Road Liverpool. Back in the 70s, you had to be careful going to away matches if you wore your Flemings and were trying to keep a 'low profile.' Your Flemings could give you away.
I was in Liverpool on a five night stay at the end of August with two mates and was my second visit to the city and really enjoyed myself more so that I went on the ferry for the first time. Looking forward to going back, can`t wait.
Many people in that documentary would be well into their 70's and 80's now. I'm in my 50's and was a teenager in the 1980's. The 1960's must have been a glorious time to be a teenager, look at the impeccable dress code of the guys and gals, when did dress standards start to slip?
Immediately after this. 70's was all jeans and t-shirts for the masses. 80's got into bizarre glam and more rough edge punk. 90's was just dull and uninspired. 2000's for the last 20 years haven't had a plausible fashion, they've had anti-fashion.
Although they didn't win, the second group, The Jynx, did get a recording contract and released the track played here as a single. Sadly it disappeared without trace but remains one of the most collectable beat group records of the time.
I Welsh from my Father and Irish-Catholic through mum: Liverpool back in the day looks like my kind of town. It used to be called the "Other Capital of Wales" and Ireland. Such a fascinating city and history. So many Americans departed from Europe and Liverpool.
It was a great time back then in Liverpool...apart from the Cavern..we had such a choice of many other clubs...like...the Beachcomber....the Iron Door...the Pink Parrot...the Chequers...the Vermont...as well as lots of after hours coffee bars....I was lucky to have been born in that time...the rebirth of Rock N Roll....the Liverpool Sound
I find great humor in the fact that these teenagers likely regard the music, styles, and culture of my generation with just as much contempt as the commentator does theirs
I love the fact that a guy with merely an inch or so of hair at the back was "Long haired". Oh how that would seem a silly claim only a few years later. Heck I think Frank Zappas Freakout was only about a year or two after this.
Luckily for them, there was very little actual combustible material down there other than the crowd themselves. The walls and ceilings were brick. The floor was stone and there was nothing like curtains or carpets which could catch fire. The fact that the vast majority were smoking would have been the likely fire source, if any. I don't know if there were any fire exits or fire extinguishers.
Yep, that’s Freda! I asked her about this video a few years back and she said I was so funny filming it, as they had to stand in the record booths with no music playing and pretend to be into the non existent music. Both Freda and the lad, were both employees of NEMS and Brian Epstein.
Прекрасные белые лица , голубые глаза не одурманенные наркотой… девушки в платьях, мужчины выглядят по мужски … ГДЕ ВСЁ ЭТО СЕЙЧАС? Что стало с Европой ?
Wearing suits. Hanging out in a cavern. White kids dancing to blues music. Makes it seem like nothing else in history has ever been cool, except for this.
Some of those tracks sound just like the Beatles particularly the Mersey Beats song at the end it's almost like John singing, in fact it almost sounds like the Beatles covered their song, that line " gonna have some fun tonight" and did you hear the harmonica bit hard to know who influenced who, suppose it's like most musical scenes based in a specific location there's a lot of give and take both ways all influencing each other to make a consistent sound.
And it's not like people didn't have long hair in the past, either. It's not a new phenomenon. Look at the long hairstyles men had in the 17th century & back even further in medieval times. "This long, lank hairstyle"??!! Come to think of it, they weren't really very long at all. Judging by these mid-1960's hairstyles here, either. The hair got far longer in men, as the 1960's progressed. (ie: the late 1960's). This commentator doesn't half talk a load of old tripe!!
have been looking for this for ever! i am the drummer in the Ko-dels now aged 75!!
Right on! 👍🏻
is your music on the internet anywhere?
Hi Ed
What’s the group’s story?
Who was in the lineup?
Were the girls on stage a part of the group?
Come on, ed. There's three questions been asked of you here. Spill the beans, lad.
The absolute contempt within the commentary. Fabulous archive.
couldn't agree more about the contempt. he sounded like a headmaster who wanted the teenagers to get their haircut, get books out and read a bit of Kipling then put an irving Berlin record on!
Sarcastic git.
Oh, those days. Those _wonderful_ days. How I wish it was all still there.
What a town. Love you, Liverpool.
I left school the year after this film was made.
And started work in Liverpool City Centre. The office buildings were mostly of Edwardian design and survived the second world war impact on the city.
Shops were plentiful with all styles catered for. We had dress well at Peter Pell for the suits.
Flemings for denim jeans, that had not caught on with younger generation
Streets were safer, and cleaner. Pubs were well run and a place to meet up.
Anyone who recalls the city centre from the 60s might be hard pressed to say the current centre has the same appeal to all ages, like it did in the 1960s and 70s
Flemings Jeans had a shop in Walton, nearly everyone in our School wore them and the wider the better, with either Air weir Boots, or Como Shoes. Happy Days.
@@stephensmith4480 They had the tag on the back with the address on - 74 Walton Road Liverpool. Back in the 70s, you had to be careful going to away matches if you wore your Flemings and were trying to keep a 'low profile.' Your Flemings could give you away.
@@gary1961 That`s right mate, I remember them well. That shop was Tiny if I recall, yet so many of us visited it.
Utterly ruined by the overdubbed screaming. Total fakery. Typical of the media to do that shit even back then.
Why overdub the screams? The cavern wasn't about that - it was about turning up, listening to some tunes and having a groove
I was in Liverpool on a five night stay at the end of August with two mates and was my second visit to the city and really enjoyed myself more so that I went on the ferry for the first time.
Looking forward to going back, can`t wait.
This brings back memories of a time a year before I was born, in a place I've never been. But it's SO cool and nostalgic!
Greetings from Hamburg, Elbe to Liverpool, Mersey.
Is that where the Beatles first giged and got their mop top hair, before they became the fab four?
@@1funkyflyguyyep. That’s where Stu’s girlfriend gave them their signature mop tops.
"... that Liverpool has inflicted on a long suffering world." Lol, great line.
Many people in that documentary would be well into their 70's and 80's now. I'm in my 50's and was a teenager in the 1980's. The 1960's must have been a glorious time to be a teenager, look at the impeccable dress code of the guys and gals, when did dress standards start to slip?
Immediately after this. 70's was all jeans and t-shirts for the masses. 80's got into bizarre glam and more rough edge punk. 90's was just dull and uninspired. 2000's for the last 20 years haven't had a plausible fashion, they've had anti-fashion.
That sadly all ended in 1968.
Although they didn't win, the second group, The Jynx, did get a recording contract and released the track played here as a single. Sadly it disappeared without trace but remains one of the most collectable beat group records of the time.
Some of those albums would be worth a small fortune now! Off to build a time machine.
There’s well over 100k worth of musical instruments
I Welsh from my Father and Irish-Catholic through mum: Liverpool back in the day looks like my kind of town. It used to be called the "Other Capital of Wales" and Ireland. Such a fascinating city and history. So many Americans departed from Europe and Liverpool.
The accent of Liverpool is welsh, Irish and Scots mixed and they have a great accent love Liverpool
everybody looked so smart
At. 1:07. That’s Freda Kelly the Beatles secretary from 64 till they broke up she’s on the right dark hair
The Beatles saved the world from boredom
Yup
Absolutely.
Who saved Lennon tho?
Fact!
Wish I would have been there. The girls look so beautiful and I love the suits the guys are wearing. I sure as hell was born in the wrong era.
There was time to have a life then. We have filled up our own lives with rubbish that exhausts us.
I was. And Hamburg to. Saw the Beatles 79 times in those early days.
@@oneeyedmonster9460 awesome
It was a great time back then in Liverpool...apart from the Cavern..we had such a choice of many other clubs...like...the Beachcomber....the Iron Door...the Pink Parrot...the Chequers...the Vermont...as well as lots of after hours coffee bars....I was lucky to have been born in that time...the rebirth of Rock N Roll....the Liverpool Sound
Who’s keeping you from wearing those clothes today? It’s your own conformity that stops you.
My first thought when watching this was how dirty some of the buildings were. I suppose that's what all the towns and cities were like in those days
Yes.'smog' was responsible.Our 'air' today is so much cleaner.
Coal?
This clip should be played in every Music Education program in the world.
I find great humor in the fact that these teenagers likely regard the music, styles, and culture of my generation with just as much contempt as the commentator does theirs
Wow. everyone is so smartly dressed.
Love this - Can't beat a gramma phone music shop. Hippies.
British Pathe has the best doc clips about British pop in the 1960s.
A different planet to where we live now.
Sadly!
Amazing! Eternal! Love it!❤❤😊
the greatest place
I love the fact that a guy with merely an inch or so of hair at the back was "Long haired". Oh how that would seem a silly claim only a few years later. Heck I think Frank Zappas Freakout was only about a year or two after this.
The weird thing is a lot of The sessions at The Cavern were lunchtime ones.
My era!
Well, that was bloody condescending to the young people of Liverpool !
Good video. Wish they wouldn't have added the fake screaming over it though.
'it might be Rome' the soundtrack says....it could in actual fact be Rotterdam or anywhere
What an era
Harking back to the 1950's & early 1960's in the Cavern......Anyone got a film of the Jazz performed there??? Merseysippi Jazz Band, for one?
Yes
The Cavern was really a firetrap.
Luckily for them, there was very little actual combustible material down there other than the crowd themselves. The walls and ceilings were brick. The floor was stone and there was nothing like curtains or carpets which could catch fire. The fact that the vast majority were smoking would have been the likely fire source, if any.
I don't know if there were any fire exits or fire extinguishers.
@@gary1961 True... but just think if something had made the crowd panic. It would have been ugly.
So very different from today.
BIRTH OF THE BEATLES
Lovely amazing beautiful people city
Just LOVE the snark! Long live Queen Victoria!
Is that Freeda at 1:08?
what is the song ??? 4:23 help me
'How' by The Jynx
@@TheMerseySound1 thx
The narrator sounded like a stuffy old geezer in a suit.
That was the point.
That's in Merseyside, England
There’s a girl in the minute 1:08 who loks exactly like Freda Kelly (The Beatles Secretary)… is it she…?!?
I thought so too
Yep, that’s Freda! I asked her about this video a few years back and she said I was so funny filming it, as they had to stand in the record booths with no music playing and pretend to be into the non existent music. Both Freda and the lad, were both employees of NEMS and Brian Epstein.
@@Bigbear574 You couldn`t go to town on a Saturday afternoon without calling into NEMS.
deffo freda!
'because anyway' as part of the narration???
Very dated now,but fascinating!
If that's dated, then give me dated every time!
@@hudois 100% 👍
Ummm anything older than 1 year becomes ‘dated’.
Que lindo puedo verla a mi vecina ahora con 81 años que en sus años mozos hera bien loca
Прекрасные белые лица , голубые глаза не одурманенные наркотой… девушки в платьях, мужчины выглядят по мужски … ГДЕ ВСЁ ЭТО СЕЙЧАС? Что стало с Европой ?
song name ? 5:01
Hi-Heeled Sneakers
I refuse to believe this was reality, because what happened and where did it go
Were the bands actually paid to play, or was this one of those exposure tricks?
The Sound of '64 Beat contest in the footage was real so those competing bands weren't paid to be there unlike The Merseybeats
How much soot? Jebus!
Talk about anything goes....Earthy is about the kindest discription
Was there! But only at the Caverne twice.
The _Carverne_ eh? Yeah, sure you was!
What's with the screaming ?And no one was 😂
Wearing suits. Hanging out in a cavern. White kids dancing to blues music. Makes it seem like nothing else in history has ever been cool, except for this.
I’m on acid… this is weird
Too funny. Tons of screaming in the club scene and not one person seen screaming.
'the corkscrew sort of hair that can't be coaxed'... jesus.
@bluebellbeatnik4945
Calm down
@@JackSmith-kp2vs think you need calming, dear.
5:04 bros shredding
Why the colorization?
LOL the toga comment.
Some of those tracks sound just like the Beatles particularly the Mersey Beats song at the end it's almost like John singing, in fact it almost sounds like the Beatles covered their song, that line " gonna have some fun tonight" and did you hear the harmonica bit hard to know who influenced who, suppose it's like most musical scenes based in a specific location there's a lot of give and take both ways all influencing each other to make a consistent sound.
Mersy tunnel or den.... Can't see anything
What a shame they mixed in abtotally irrelevant “screaming” soundtrack which just spoilt the whole film, apart from the derogatory commentary.
And it's not like people didn't have long hair in the past, either. It's not a new phenomenon. Look at the long hairstyles men had in the 17th century & back even further in medieval times. "This long, lank hairstyle"??!! Come to think of it, they weren't really very long at all. Judging by these mid-1960's hairstyles here, either. The hair got far longer in men, as the 1960's progressed. (ie: the late 1960's). This commentator doesn't half talk a load of old tripe!!
Ah, the narrator might sound dismissive and condescending. But he's more accepting than most that generation is of young people today
It's the young people today who aren't accepting of the older generation.
Teenagers dressed like their parents?
because that's the trend back then. Denims and non-formal attire were not yet worn in parties at that time.
In transition from the earlier 60's to the later 60's.